http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050902-8.html

[An interesting point you make, Liz, considering the veil of anonymity
surrounding your own post.]

Today Elizabeth F. Campion wrote:

>
> One very scary thing...
> Until I check the citations, I can not be sure if the attached Press
> Release is real or one of Ross's satires.
> Liz
>
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:54:54 EDT Benseraglio2@aol.... writes:
>> Chill out, bro. The President has told us that he's going to build
>> Trent Lott
>> another house and then go sit on his front porch. Ain't that good
>> enough for
>> you??
>>
>>
>> Remarks by President Bush During Briefing on Hurricane Katrina
>> Friday September 2, 2:36 pm ET
>> WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The following are remarks by
>> President
>> Bush during a briefing on Hurricane Katrina:
>>     Mobile Regional Airport
>>     Mobile, Alabama
>>
>>     10:35 A.M. CDT
>>
>> THE PRESIDENT: Well, first I want to say a few things. I am
>> incredibly proud
>> of our Coast Guard. We have got courageous people risking their
>> lives to save
>> life. And I want to thank the commanders and I want to thank the
>> troops over
>> there for representing the best of America.
>> I want to congratulate the governors for being leaders. You didn't
>> ask for
>> this, when you swore in, but you're doing a heck of a job. And the
>> federal
>> government's job is big, and it's massive, and we're going to do it.
>> Where it's not
>> working right, we're going to make it right. Where it is working
>> right, we're
>> going to duplicate it elsewhere. We have a responsibility, at the
>> federal
>> level, to help save life, and that's the primary focus right now.
>> Every life is
>> precious, and so we're going to spend a lot of time saving lives,
>> whether it be
>> in New Orleans or on the coast of Mississippi.
>> We have a responsibility to help clean up this mess, and I want to
>> thank the
>> Congress for acting as quickly as you did. Step one is to
>> appropriate $10.5
>> billion. But I've got to warn everybody, that's just the beginning.
>> That's a
>> small down payment for the cost of this effort. But to help the good
>> folks here,
>> we need to do it.
>> We are going to restore order in the city of New Orleans, and we're
>> going to
>> help supplement the efforts of the Mississippi Guard and others to
>> restore
>> order in parts of Mississippi. And I want to thank you for your
>> strong statement
>> of zero tolerance. The people of this country expect there to be law
>> and
>> order, and we're going to work hard to get it. In order to make sure
>> there's less
>> violence, we've got to get food to people. And that's a primary
>> mission, is to
>> get food to people. And there's a lot of food moving. And now the --
>> it's one
>> thing to get it moving to a station, it's the next thing to get it
>> in the
>> hands of the people, and that's where we're going to spend a lot of
>> time focusing.
>> We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save
>> lives and
>> stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these
>> communities rebuild.
>> The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out
>> of this
>> chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before.
>> Out of the
>> rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house --
>> there's going to
>> be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the
>> porch.
>> (Laughter.)
>>
>> In a message dated 9/2/2005 9:42:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> herons@ucwp... writes:
>> Predictable.  Fire up the Rove  brigade and follow the republican
>> mantra.
>> Say it early, say it often and say it loud.  Blame everything on the
>>
>> democrats.  So what if it is an act of god.  So what if it is a
>> republican
>> administration that sat back and ignored all signs of an impending
>> disaster.
>> So what if FEMA can't find a road map to the south even with
>> Mapquest.  Just
>> keep saying it often enough and maybe people will stop asking why W
>> and his
>> HomeLand cronies weren't interested in an actual homeland
>> catastrophe until
>> desperate people in horrendous situations started making it on the
>> national
>> news begging for water and pictures of dead bodies in wheelchairs
>> made it on
>> the front pages of the papers.
>>
>> But then this is the administration ( with Sentoram's help) that
>> wants to
>> sell off the National Weather Service so that corporate America in
>> the form
>> of Acuweather can profit from (or maybe withhold) data essential for
>>
>> predicting and tracking severe storms.  This is the administration
>> that is
>> more interested in rewarding it's friends (can you say rich
>> political
>> contributors?) with personal and corporate tax cuts while
>> maintenance on
>> bridges and levies is deferred because of budget cuts.  This is the
>> administration that has manipulated, altered and flat out falsified
>> any
>> national scientific report, that documents the increasing damage to
>> the
>> country and to the planet of unchecked pollution and the global
>> warming that
>> it causes.  And it is the administration that is counting in
>> maintaining
>> it's power by keeping the population off balance with it's Orwellian
>>
>> scripted threat from the outside with the War on Terror.  The same
>> WOT
>> inflamed by this government's fabrication of Iraqi weapons of mass
>> destruction, nonexistent biological and nuclear weapons and
>> fictitious Ben
>> Laden, Sadam ties.
>>
>> Just what was FEMA doing for the week Katrina sat in the gulf
>> soaking up
>> water and energy?  It crossed into the gulf a category one and well
>> before
>> Monday was a category four heading to five.  Why, suddenly, when the
>>
>> administration and agency were coming under increasing criticism for
>> its
>> lack of response do we see today for the first time caravans of
>> National
>> Guard vehicles entering the city?
>>
>> Yes, there should be investigations into the dismal federal response
>> to this
>> tragedy.  And FEMA and it's criminally, non-existent response should
>> be the
>> first to go under the microscope.
>>
>> C J Kelly
>> 47th St
>>
>>
>> Ross Bender
>> http://rossbender.org
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2005-09-03

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